East Tennessee Purchasing Association to host Fourth Annual Business Matchmaking Event
Back by overwhelming popular demand, the East Tennessee Purchasing Association will host the fourth annual Business Matchmaking event on July 19, 2012 in Johnson City, Tennessee. Last years event, held in Knoxville, was a tremendous success ‚¬ nearly 250 small businesses met with numerous governmental and private corporations, such as Pilot Travel Centers, Ameresco, B&W Y-12, Covenant Health, S&ME, SunTrust, Tennessee Valley Authority, Trane, City of Johnson City, City of Knoxville, Knox County, the City of Chattanooga, Anderson County, Roane County, The University of Tennessee and many others.‚ You are cordially invited to participate in this unique event designed to directly support your procurement and supplier diversity goals.
The purpose is to match small businesses with governmental agencies and major corporations that have contract opportunities for products/services offered by small, growing companies and to create relationships for future business opportunities.
This event brings together numerous small businesses who meet in pre-scheduled face-to-face meetings with 20+ procurement representatives from both the public and private sector.‚ Planned participating procurement representatives include such organizations as the City of Johnson City, City of Knoxville, Knox County Government, the Knoxville Airport Authority, City of Kingsport, and numerous other entities.
We are pleased to extend an invitation to have your Supplier Diversity or Procurement officials participate as one of the matchmakers.‚ Your procurement team will meet with small businesses that are vetted and prepared to discuss contract opportunities.
Key things to remember about participating:
- The program consists of 10 minute appointments scheduled with small businesses that are matched to your stated buying needs.
- Your team will have the opportunity to meet with the other major matchmaking organizations as time and opportunity presents itself in order to network for your own potential business needs.
- The program takes place from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm on July 19, 2012 at The Millennium Centre located at 2001 Millenium Place in Johnson City, Tennessee, where there is plenty of free parking.‚ Participants will receive lunch as well as snacks/beverages throughout the day.
- The nominal cost to participate is $280 which directly supports the cost of holding the event.
- You can register online at www.etpanews.org or by contacting Debbie Dillon at (423) 975-2717, email ddillon@johnsoncitytn.org
- Please register to attend by Monday, April 30, 2011 so that you can reserve a spot for this worthwhile event.
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This event will help you meet your competitive needs and achieve your business diversity goals.